In London an incident of police violence has occurred at Critical Mass, the monthly ‘protest on wheels’ in which thousands of cyclists, accompanied by skateboarders and roller bladers, take to the streets in major cities world-wide.
Occurring on the last Friday of every month Critical Mass is an opportunity for a fun, mobile party as well as to…[Read more]

After the 30th consecutive night of student protests mass arrests have taken place. 518 protesters were arrested and fined $600 while over 170 were detained.
The Montreal Gazette reported that the march was peaceful until Police kettled a large group of protesters.… Read more

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The Ukrainian Parliament resembled a pub when a rowdy brawl broke out between opposition and pro-presidential deputies. What sparked the tussle was a moot bill that sought to grant the Russian language official status in parts of the country.
The scuffle erupted after opposition deputies, bearing Orthodox…[Read more]

by INSURGENT G
May 1st 2012 – Montreal
reposted from anarchist news
– poster circulating around the strikeTHE LAWS
On Friday, May 18, 2012, two new laws came into effect in montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that began in this province fifteen weeks ago, to restore order and…[Read more]

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MONTREAL — Canadian police made nearly 700 arrests after mass protests by students in several cities on Wednesday night.Some 518 arrests were made in Montreal as officers moved in on students demonstrating against government plans to raise college tuition costs, CBC News reported.… Read more

Embattled ‘welfare-to-work’ company A4e has been hit by fresh claims of fraud and impropriety this morning.
Today’s Telegraph reveals that in secret evidence to a Parliamentary committee on Tuesday, A4e’s former head of audit, Eddie Hutchinson, provided documentation showing how an “unethical culture” led to “systemic fraud” at the company, which…[Read more]

Twitter has suspended activist group, Space Hijackers, account after a complaint by Locog(Game Organisers) that the activist group engaged in defacing the trademark logo.
A week after Space Hijackers set themselves up as the “official protesters of the London 2012 Olympic Games”, Twitter suspended the account without warning, saying the satirists’…[Read more]

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Scotland Yard is uncovering evidence that detectives in the Metropolitan Police anti-corruption unit received roughly £20,000 for information regarding convicted Nigerian politician, James Ibori.Private Investigation Firm RISC Management was hired by Ibori in 2007 when he discovered he was being…[Read more]

The international credit ratings agency Fitch has downgraded Greece to class CCC after the newly elected MPs failed to form a coalition. Fitch states that its decision to downgrade Greece is in part due to the possibility of an anti-austerity party winning a majority, a real possibility considering that the majority of MPs were elected on…[Read more]

In the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk two FEMEN activists have been arrested after knocking over the Euro Cup, otherwise known as the Henri Delaunay trophy, awarded to the winner of the European Football Championship. Bearing her breasts in defiance, 23 year old Yulia Kovpachik, attempted to topple the trophy while posing to be photographed.… [Read more]

BY DAVID ROSEN
The company’s attitudes toward privacy have grown increasingly dismissive. Now some countries are taking noticeIn 1999, Scott McNealy, the former head of Sun MicroSystems, reportedly declared, “You have zero privacy anyway….Get over it.” He unintentionally let the proverbial cat out of the bag of the digital age.… Read more

On Saturday the picture used in Guerilla Art group Faction’s action was found in East London, it was on shop front.
The art group put it up recently in support of the St Paul’s protest. A week previously there was a ‘massacre of the innocents’ when peaceful occupiers were seized by snatch squads in a celebration of the one year of the Indignados…[Read more]

In the opening days of the London Occupation, in which thousands of people packed into the small square outside St Paul’s Cathedral, I attended a sermon by the Canon Giles Fraser and to my astonishment experienced the complete totality of the universe, often known as God.… Read more

“In the time when the earth lies dying there will come a generation with the courage, the goodness and the strength of will to overcome the oppressors who enslave all things. Today that generation lives.” – Native American Lore

America welcomes a new brand of smart street lightning systems: energy-efficient, long-lasting, complete with LED screens to show ads. They can also spy on citizens in a way George Orwell would not have imagined in his worst nightmare.
With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the street lights are now being rolled out in…[Read more]

Collapse of coalition talks plunges eurozone into fresh turmoil as EU policymakers work on plans for post-Greek single currency
Larry Elliott, and Helena Smith in Athensguardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 May 2012 20.32 BSTEurope is facing a month of political and economic upheaval after the failure of nine days of coalition talks in Greece prompted…[Read more]

As part of the 12M celebrations in London for the one year of the Spanish Indignados movement. Police were in heavy numbers,Metropolitan police, city of london corporation police, territorial support group, they used kettling from the beginning of March, it looked more like the Police had Occupied The Bank Of England.… Read more

BY REBECCA BURNSOn May 12, demonstrations will be held in cities across Europe and the Americas—from Rio de Janeiro to New York to Madrid—in a declared day of “global revolution.”
The obvious question is: Can one just declare such a thing?… Read more

Whether you analyse the causes of ecological destruction, financial injustice, human rights abuses or undemocratic elite power, a significant proportion of these tragedies can be traced to the City of London. The assertion that corporations behave as psychopaths is backed up by looking at the actions and impacts of the powerful multinational…[Read more]